第二部分 课程内容大纲
《新世纪高职英语》（第一册）（64学时）
一、教学目的和要求：
经过64学时的教学，使学生更主动地把握词汇学习规律，在原有词汇的基
础上将词汇量增加到2000；进一步巩固和加深基本语法知识；能够顺利阅读语言难度一般的文章，掌握文章的中心大意并对文章进行一定的分析，推理和判断；能在阅读难度与课文相当的书面材料时做笔记，回答问题，写提纲。
教学重点：词汇、语法知识、基本句型结构 教学难点：篇章结构
教学方法方式和方法：课堂讲授；分组讨论 二、内容提要：
Unit One Unit Two Unit Three Unit Four Unit Five Unit Six Unit Seven Unit Eight Unit Nine Unit Ten
三、课程内容：
Unit One Why College?
课文重点: Vocabulary & Structure
a. Vocabulary academic, advanced, beyond, degree, executive, graduate, major, master,
privilege, require, research, reserve, serve, talented, variety, in addition to
b. Structure the more …the more …, either…or
课文难点: Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. Today, it is quite common for adults of all ages to come back to college either for career advancement or personal growth.
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Why College? The World beyond the Classroom Friends Give You Success Who’s Afraid of Maths Anyway? Winning at All Costs Why Are We addicted to Soaps? The Richest Man in the World This Generation Means Business Surfing’s Up and Grades Are Down Rethinking Thinking
b. But recent high school graduates no longer dominate the college campuses.
Unit Two The World beyond the Classroom
课文重点: Vocabulary & Structure
a. Vocabulary advisor, community, gain，relationship，budget，celebration，
institution，r ésumé，career，environment，intellectual，priority，concert，form， update
b.Stucture regardless of; along with; …who; …which
课文难点: Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
Most will not get paid for their efforts, but their hard work to enrich campus life will provide them with a priceless gift of working for something bigger than themselves.
Unit Three Friends Give You Success
课文重点: Vocabulary & Structure
a. Vocabulary popularity，depressing，deserve，complain，website，in any case，
potential，grease，exist，definition，count on，impact，intelligence apparently，note，count up，fortune，circle，assign，tie
b.Stucture have trouble doing sth.; it seems that …; … so do you
课文难点: Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
Most will not get paid for their efforts, but their hard work to enrich campus life will provide them with a priceless gift of working for something bigger than themselves.
Unit Four Who’s Afraid of Maths Anyway?
课文重点: Vocabulary & Structure
a. Vocabulary apparent, avoid, claim, convince, evidence, influence, reveal, solve,
suggest, statistics, tend, bring up, come up with, find out, go back to, lead to, point out, take up,
b.Stucture as… as, be likely to
课文难点: Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. But the difficulty is that by the time children reach school age, there are so many other influnces that
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it is almost impossible to tell whether girls are worse at science and maths, or whether they’ve been brought up to think of these subjects as boys’ ―territory‖.
b. Interestingly, both boys and girls tend to ragard such ―masculine‖ subjects like mathematics and science as difficult.
Unit Five Winning at All Cost
课文重点：Vocabulary & Structure
a. vocabulary: confidence, dose, issue, nerve, pill, relieve, rely, risk, stress, have an
effect on, blood pressure
b. structure: When it comes to …, more than, twice/ three times more than
课文难点：Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. With the development of medical science, modern athletes have an even wider choice when it comes to pills and drugs.
b. This is because people who take stimulants think thay can keep going and they push their bodies too far.
Unit Six Why Are We Addicted to Soaps?
课文重点：Vocabulary & Structure
a. vocabulary: argument, critic, whatever, remain, capture, entire, allow, identify,
character, copy, provoke, campaign, entertainment, concentrate, critical, incident, deliberate, guarantee, predict, analyze, motive, issue, center around, base on , think of as, set free, refer to, cut short, compare with, according to
b. Structure: no more than, whatever, succeed in doing
课文难点：Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. Why are we addicted to soaps?
b. The soap opera has succeeded in capturing the imagination of the entire world.
Unit Seven The Richest Man in the World
课文重点：Vocabulary & Structure
a. vocabulary: afford, estimate, encode, wander, intimate, approach, virtual, date,
mobile, exchange, insert, fortune, click, intention, go off, be based
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on, sign an agreement, start up
b. structure: double negative, of which, the reason why
课文难点：Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. He has built a mansion overlooking Lake Washington that he’s packed with high-tech gadgetry and TV monitors, some taking up an entire wall.
b. When he went out with an ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad, who is now a very successful businesswoman, the couple conducted much of their relationship by going on virtual dates.
Unit Eight This Generation Means Business
课文重点：Vocabulary & Structure
a. vocabulary: calculate, handle, involve, launch, plead, decade, enterprise, explorer,
finance, instinct, investment, survey, drop out, meet one’s needs, turn to, living expenses
b. structure: would rather … than…
课文难点：Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. This generation means business
b. They were like explorers hacking their way through a jungle--- they had to be prepared to handle anything.
Unit Nine Surfing’s Up and Grades Are Down
课文重点：Vocabulary & Structure
a. vocabulary: identification, marvelous, miracle, positive, sensible, sign be
engaged to, for a change, for one thing, get away with, in particular, insist on, little short of, lose touch with, nothing to do with, out of the question, sign off
b. structure: It is/ was +stressed part+ that/ who+ 句子
课文难点：Paraphrases of Difficult Sentences in the Text
a. What’s the good of anything? What’s the good of living? b. It is just a matter of personal character. c. Mother came over of course, mines or no mines.
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